The Duke Kept Finding Silly Excuses to Talk to Her — Until She Said, "Will You Ask Me Already?" - Video

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On ball nights in a small chalk-country town, Rebecca Eldgrove sat in a room hardly bigger than a pantry at the end of a cold passage, mending the hems of women who thanked the air above her head. She was two-and-twenty, she had made more than half the gowns in that ballroom, and not one of their owners would ever admit it. She had stopped minding. A woman nobody looks at hears a very great deal.

Then a tall man in black came down the passage looking for a way out of his own evening, and she told him to sit down, and mended his cuff in five minutes. Three days later a footman brought his coat back because the buttons were "wrong for the country." Then a waistcoat. Then a glove. Then a hat with a nick in the band. Every seam cut clean with a small sharp blade, by a duke who had never in his life been taught how to ask for anything that could not be bought.

She kept every thread in a japanned tin box, dated in her own hand. And she said nothing — because a lawyer's letter had come from Bath, because a grandmother with money meant to take her dead sister's child, and because somebody in Fore Street was being paid a shilling a time to count how often a great man came to her door. By June it was all sworn on paper, and the only thing she had left to fight with was a book of cloth samples nobody had ever thought to open.

A tender regency tale of a woman nobody looked at, and the awkward, honourable duke who ruined his own coats for one hour a week in her doorway. Sit back, relax, and let this story carry you to the candlelit ballrooms and great houses of old England.

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This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, places, and events are entirely fictional and the product of creative storytelling. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or to actual events is purely coincidental. This story and its narration are produced with the assistance of AI tools for entertainment purposes only.